Dear Sir

at length arrived Mr Macgovan’s parcel for which the poor engraver & I are much obliged to you.

I am vastly pleased with y^r booksellers. printing these little old tracts; I assure you I will puff them off.

Doctor Webster is most obliging. if he will be so good as to draw up a concise account of his excellent plan. It will be a great obligation.¹ I have the acts of parlement but do not understand the affair well enough to do it. I beg my best compliments though unknown to him.

I am D^r Sir in much haste y^rs

T Pennant

Nov^r 12^th 1773.

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Editorial notes

1. Possibly a reference to the Church of Scotland Minister Alexander Webster, author of An account of the number of people in Scotland in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five (1755).